Chapter 6: Interoperability

Title: Proposition of a product information exchange framework: multiple viewpoints approach

Author(s): Hichem Geryville, Yacine Ouzrout, Abdelaziz Bouras, Nikolaos Sapidis

Address: LIEPS Laboratory – Team Lyon 2, IUT Lumière Lyon 2, 160 Boulevard de l|Université, 69676 Bron Cedex - FRANCE | LIEPS Laboratory – Team Lyon 2, IUT Lumière Lyon 2, 160 Boulevard de l|Université, 69676 Bron Cedex - FRANCE | LIEPS Laboratory – Team Lyon 2, IUT Lumière Lyon 2, 160 Boulevard de l|Université, 69676 Bron Cedex - FRANCE | Dpt of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, 84100 Ermoupolis, Syros – GREECE

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2007 pp. 373 - 382

Abstract/Summary: In today's competitive world, companies are ever more stressed and subjected to high market requests. Customers are becoming more pretentious in terms of products quality and delivery times, while the product itself is turning to something more complex than just physical good. In this context, companies are considering that constraints are sustained to great product development by integrating the management of its entire lifecycle and its supply-chains. Achieving this goal requires an intense collaboration between multidisciplinary actors. The representation of the actors' viewpoints is the underlying requirement of the collaborative product development. The multiple viewpoints approach was designed to provide an organizational framework following actors' interests in the collaboration, and their relationships. In this paper, a multiple viewpoints representation is presented. Product, process, collaboration, and organization information models are discussed. Based on XML, taking electric connector as an example, an application case, part of product information, is stated.

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